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Title: Freedom Just Around the Corner : A New American History: 1585-1828 by Walter A. McDougall ISBN: 0-06-019789-7 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 28 March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Tour De Force
Comment: In his foreword, McDougall is candid about his own doubts about whether America needs yet another multi-volume set of tomes chronicling its history. As the existnece of this book indicates, McDougall answered his own doubts.
The book is built around the central thesis that "America is a nation of hustlers". McDougall's central insight proves to be fresh and interesting enough to carry subject matter that has (as the author admits) been covered many times before.
His sythesis of recent scholarship in the field of American History is top notch, and the notes alone make the book worth the cover price. Interested readers will find hundreds of jumping off points for further exploration in the field of merican history.
McDougall is cognizant of the diversity of "histories" which have multiplied in recent years. He includes citations to and summaries of gender and ethnic histories that demonstrate his familiarity with recent scholarship.
At the same time, he drops footnotes lauding Huntington (a historian favored by conservatives) and certainly doesn't shy away from the "great man" school of scholarship.
I especially enjoyed the treatment of the links between intellectual history in Britain in the pre-revolutinary era with the developments in America leading up to the revolution.
On the whole, this is a balanced, nuanced reading of American history and I anticipate the next chapter(this is projected to be a three volume set).
Rating: 5
Summary: Another great work by Walter McDougall
Comment: For sheer intelligence and insight, coupled with stunning articulation, few can match the ability of Walter McDougall. In fact, I am not sure that there are any better living historians.
This too will delight and inform and offer a lifetime's food for thought.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Grand and Sweeping Spectacle
Comment: McDougall offers an account of the American experience distilled to its essance, our irresistable enterprising nature. Though we are a nation comprised of immigrants, he asserts that the prior legacies of new arrivals are quickly supplanted by the unleashing of human nature...to pursue that which is in our own self interest. That is what powers our drive for innovation, for progress, and above all profit.
It is refreshing to find a bold central thesis to such a sweeping historical account. This is not a textbook regurgitation of well worn historical fact. In this book you will enjoy an articuate perspective of the unique character of American ingenuity woven through a narrative of the major figures and milestones of our nation's history.
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Title: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ISBN: 1594200092 Publisher: The Penguin Press Pub. Date: 26 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Accidental Connoisseur : An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World by Lawrence Osborne ISBN: 0865476330 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer ISBN: 0195170342 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Island at the Center of the World : The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by RUSSELL SHORTO ISBN: 0385503490 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 16 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Europe's Last Summer : Who Started the Great War in 1914? by DAVID FROMKIN ISBN: 0375411569 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 23 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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